Yeah, that's pretty accurate. At least for the
Next Generation game and the
Starfleet Academy game anyway. Those were the only two I actually played myself as a kid. I did try the
DS9 game in recent years on an emulator, but I bounced off of it after five minutes or so. I also tried to replay the Next Gen game recently and... ehhh. And I haven't even bothered with the Starfleet Academy game again lately, because... ehhhhhhhhh.
I only remember one specific thing about the Next Gen game, even though I owned and beat that one, and that is that there was one planet that I think had some kind of screwed up, poisonous atmosphere (or maybe no atmosphere at all) and if you beamed down with anyone besides Data, they would immediately begin choking and die if you didn't keep some ventilation fans turned on, so it was easiest to just only send down Data by himself to that particular planet. So that was fun.
As for the Starfleet Academy game, I never owned that one, but I did rent it once for a weekend or so. Not sure if I ever managed to beat it. Probably not. And for that one, the only thing I remember was that if you
dared to approach the starbase after your mission was over with your ship still in red alert mode (i.e. shields up and weapons armed), you got chewed out because doing that is apparently against regulations or something. I don't recall if it automatically failed you, but it did at least hurt your rank for completing the mission, so I guess if your score was already pretty low, it could be enough to bump you down into failing the mission. And... I think the starbase started shooting at you if you didn't turn off red alert fast enough, maybe? So that was also fun.
And he's right about there being other, better games from that era. As I've said in previous posts about this (such as
this one here), I much preferred the old point-and-click adventure games on PC from that era, i.e.
25th Anniversary,
Judgement Rites, and
A Final Unity. (I still don't really get why GOG hasn't managed to get
A Final Unity up on their store after all these years. I'd buy pretty much in a heartbeat if they did. They have those
other two, after all, along with
several others.)
I'm still hoping that
Resurgence will also scratch that same itch that the previous P&C adventure games did (whenever I finally get around to buying it after it's released in May or whenever).
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